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Tim Matheson

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  1. #001

    Tim Matheson was the voice of Jonny Quest in the 1964 series Jonny Quest.

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  2. #002

    Tim Matheson served in the USMC reserves.

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  3. #003

    Years after playing the womanizing Otter in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Tim Matheson had to explain to disappointed fans that it was only a character he played and that he could not actually give them sexual advice.

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  4. #004

    Tim Matheson met his first wife, Jennifer Leak, while starring in the film Yours, Mine and Ours (1968).

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  5. #005

    Tim Matheson's daughters are Molly Matthieson (b. 1986) and Emma Matthieson (b. 1988).

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    Tim Matheson's son is Cooper Matthieson (b. 1994).

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  7. #007

    Tim Matheson shot his entire role in the film Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2009) in two days.

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  8. #008

    Tim Matheson worked with the (legendary) overweight comic actors John Belushi, John Candy, Sam Kinison and Chris Farley, all of whom died young (JB-33, drugs; JC-43, heart attack; SK-38, drunk driving; CF-33, drugs).

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  9. #009

    Tim Matheson played Lieutenant Andrei Sobinski in To Be or Not to Be (1983), while his 1941 (1979) co-star Robert Stack played that role in the original version of To Be or Not to Be (1942).

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  10. #010

    Tim Matheson shares his birthday with Val Kilmer.

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  11. #011

    Tim Matheson turned down the role of David Addison in the 1985 series "Moonlighting." Bruce Willis took the role.

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  12. #012

    In National Lampoon's National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Tim Matheson played a character with the surname Stratton, and then in 1941 (1979) he played a character who tries to romance a beautiful young woman whose surname is Stratton.

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  13. #013

    Tim Matheson lives in Los Angeles, California.

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  14. #014

    Tim Matheson played similar roles in Hart of Dixie and Virgin River, and the series have nearly similar stories.

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  15. #015

    Tim Matheson turned down the lead role in the original version of the television series "MacGyver." Richard Dean Anderson took the role.

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  16. #016

    Tim Matheson is portrayed by Finn Wittrock in the film A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018).

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  17. #017

    Tim Matheson was born at 9:00 PM PST.

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